Ignition Grant

Virtual Reality T’fillah: How Does Where We Pray Affect How We Pray?

JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School – To support a t’fillah pilot program that will enable students to explore new avenues for connecting spiritually and will support Jewish educators in deeply enhancing students’ capacity for Jewish engagement through prayer.

Signature Grant

The Jewish Lens at The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot

American Friends of Beit Hatfutsot – To manage, develop, and promote The Jewish Lens program throughout North America (including Canada, the United States, and Mexico). Beit Hatfutsot will enhance the curriculum, add new visual art forms, increase the program’s digital presence, and design three specific program tracks to better serve the needs of learners.

Signature Grant

The Jewish Court of All Time

The William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, The Jewish Theological Seminary – To expand the Jewish Court of All Time program by enhancing its civic engagement content, increasing the number of schools served, and providing additional professional development opportunities for educators.

Signature Grant

TikkunXDesign/Beta Midrash

Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island – To support the creation and expansion of the school’s TikkunXDesign and Beta Midrash programs, which integrate Jewish texts, traditions, and values with human-centered Design Thinking and STEAM education.
Through this grant, the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Islane (JCDSRI) will focus on two related programs, the expansion of its Tikkun...

Signature Grant

Sefaria Partnership Initiative Repository

Sefaria Inc. – To create the Sefaria Partnership Initiative Repository through which Sefaria will document and distribute best practices and tools related to the teaching and learning of Jewish texts online.
Dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way, Sefaria is assembling a free “living library” of Jewish texts in Hebrew and in English translat...

Signature Grant

Project Zug: Connecting through Online Learning

To make personally tailored online Jewish chevruta learning accessible to Jews around the world.
Project Zug has participants from across the religious spectrum and from a total of 14 different countries. The content of their courses are presented in both English and Hebrew. Project Zug is expanding the definition of “Jewish learning” by offering courses on topics that include the sp...

Signature Grant

To fund an expansion of the Studio G-dcast Media Beit Midrash program by training a national cadre of educators to independently implement its methodology for using animation as a tool for Jewish text study as well as developing an online course geared towards b’nei mitzvah students and their teachers.
Bim-Bam sought to scale their impact through two offerings: a summer intensive training at th...

Ignition Grant

Kulanu NNJ ETC: EdTech Training for Congregational Schools

To train congregational school teachers to effectively integrate educational technology in classrooms by providing pre-service and in-service training in educational technology integration through JETS Israel, Inc. to a cohort of teachers from 10 Conservative and Reform congregations in Northern New Jersey, in partnership with the local Federation (JFNNJ) and JTS. The program plans to incorporate ...

Ignition Grant

SermonSlam

To expand SermonSlam, a “poetry slam for sermons, poems, stories, narratives, plays and anything else short and on-topic,” into a regular source of new, creative Jewish expression in dozens of cities around the world as well as online. Created by Jewish Public Media, an online content producer focusing on podcast production, Sermon Slam seeks to “champion Jewish creative expression in all it...

The Covenant Foundation

The Covenant Foundation recognizes the diversity of strengths within the field of Jewish education in North America, across all denominations and settings. By honoring outstanding Jewish educators and supporting creative approaches to programming, the Foundation works to strengthen educational endeavors that perpetuate the identity, continuity and heritage of the Jewish people. The Foundation believes those with the creativity and passion to be catalysts for change and innovation in Jewish education are worthy of recognition and support. Consequently, the Foundation accepts unsolicited letters of inquiry. A Program of the Crown Family Philanthropies.